Schlüsselwörter

Epilepsie Psychose Antipsychotische Medikation Delir Fallbericht

Psychotic Disorder in the Context of Untreated Epilepsy

Abstract

The presence of psychotic disorders in patients with epilepsy is known. Psychotic disorders are grouped according to their appearance in epileptic seizures. We report the case of a 54-year-old man with the symptoms of paranoid psychosis and untreated epilepsy. Antipsychotic medication was the primary treatment. The psychotic symptoms only improved after sufficient treatment of the seizures. Alternatively the psychosis could have been caused by delirium due to untreated epilepsy for years.